The final countdown: The 10 best film endings.

[metirish]

Interested to hear what the forum thinks about this list and what are your own favorite movie endings.

http://arts.independent.co.uk/film/features/article3073823.ece

[Benjamin Grimm]

When I saw the category, and before I clicked on the link, two movies immediately popped into my head:

Humphrey Bogart saying good-bye to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca and Charlton Heston discovering the Statue of Liberty in Planet of the Apes.

Bogie made the list, Heston didn't.

[Valadius]

How the hell did the door closing on Diane Keaton in The Godfather not make this list?

[Edgy MD]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Bogie made the list, Heston didn't.

Then I ain't clicking. God damn that list to Hell.

[nymr83]

Post subject: The final countdown: The 10 best film endings.

When I saw the category, and before I clicked on the link, two movies immediately popped into my head:

one movie popped into my head and that was "The Final Countdown" a not very well-known sci-fi movie from 1980.

[Guest sharpie]

Not a terrible list. "The Third Man" was a great choice. "Dr. Strangelove" should've been in there.

[dgwphotography]

Nymr83 wrote: one movie popped into my head and that was "The Final Countdown" a not very well-known sci-fi movie from 1980.

I did like how that movie ended. Poor guy being stuck in time with Katherine Ross...

[Vic Sage]

they didn't even list the "door closing" scene that the Godfather scene was an homage to... John Ford's THE SEARCHERS.

Also, I love the ending to Frankenheimer's twilight zone-esque SECONDS.

[Edgy MD]

Kingdom of the Spiders.

[MFS62]

If you haven't clicked on the list yet, and were hoping to see Witness For the Prosecution, it isn't there.

Bad omission.
Later

[Fman99]

Yeah there are a lot of older movies on that list to be sure.

What jumped to my mind was the end of "The Usual Suspects"... Kevin Spacey in particular as he's out on the street.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Local Hero.

[Edgy MD]

Does a climactic point count as an ending if there's a brief denoument after it?

Is the end of Star Wars, for the purpose of this exercise, Luke and Han riding off yee-hah like the Duke boys, or is it everybody giggling at R2 in the awards ceremony?

[Vic Sage]

ending is ending. climax is climax. 2 different things.

[Frayed Knot]

Vic Sage wrote: ending is ending. climax is climax. 2 different things.

I think this is the part where someone chimes in; "That's what SHE said"

[Edgy MD]

Vic Sage wrote: ending is ending. climax is climax. 2 different things.

Of course, though sometimes it's the same. Payoff, curtain.

North By Northwest, for instance, includes the climax and the brief cut afterwards to the train.

But I understand the rule here, even if NxNW kind of breaks it..

[metirish]

A list in time for Halloween , a few odd choices.


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